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Death, Sex & Money

Tituss Burgess Airs His Laundry

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" actor takes us on a journey through his childhood in Georgia, and talks about what his relationship with his mother looks like today.  Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm comfortable airing my laundry, you know. I don't think any I don't think one things

0:06.8

dirty or or clean. It's just what I wear.

0:09.8

This is death,

0:16.0

This is death, sex, and money. Plus, didn't want to have sex with me.

0:18.0

Gasp!

0:19.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:22.0

Sounds like this family either has no money or way too much.

0:24.0

And need to talk about more.

0:26.0

My mother's dead. She's dead.

0:29.0

I'm Anna Sale.

0:37.9

Titus Burgess is from the South just like the character that bears his name on the unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I came here in 1998 on a damn bus from

0:42.0

Chickasaw County Mississippi. You know who leaves

0:44.2

Chickasaw County? Nobody. On the show Titus's character was born Ronald, a gay

0:50.2

man who snuck out the back door of his wedding reception to start a life as Titus

0:54.0

in New York City.

0:55.4

I changed my name to Titus and Dramedon and I marched myself into audition for the

0:59.4

Lion King.

1:00.1

You were in the Lion King on Broadway?

1:02.0

Yes, except I was not.

1:04.0

In real life, Titus Burgess has always been Titus,

1:10.0

even in the small town of Lexington, Georgia, where he spent a lot of his childhood.

1:15.0

He says it wasn't always easy growing up there, but it was home, with its quiet comforts,

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